| Show -- - i000brAAowoswir4NgneSitoutrneasikiiokiaa''Ma'""6""''W'"S'"'"'9'"'""a"'"""tr-vz—ocsrAtoNeaogkaoawawaoAudiwgioomibkmoaNNFhklmoo- 1 4 i --- I 1 1 I 4 1 - I - T4 — -II A4 -- The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June 16 1991 i'llk I 1Irk)1 111 I I AL -1 -- '''- By Jeff Barnard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i - GRANTS PASS Ore — When 1 - I e-- - 00 - 1 I Reserve Act Within three weeks President Benjamin Harrison created the Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve 12 million acres around 19- - the first national forests were created in 1891 conservationists were Yellowstone Nationali year-olworried the unchecked westward was followed the same year It Park march of timber barons would leave the nation without by the White River Plateau Timberland Reserve in Colorado More relumber water or wildlife serves followed in 1892 in Alaska I This year the US Forest Service celebrates the centennial of the Washington Oregon California New Mexico and Colorado lands under its care — and environThough it drew little attention at mentalists still are worried Logtime historians now point to the the continthe national forests in ging ues and they say wildlife is act as a turning point in the nationali policy on public land: Instead of imperiled "It is so bitter and so ironic" said selling it or giving it away the government began to hold land in reBrock Evans National Audubon serve Society vice president for national The act was born of a mood thatt issues "They are liquidating it all a with began to develop in 1864 when slower in the Forest Service lot more bureaucracy but they are George Perkins Marsh wrote in his liquidating it nonetheless The ar- book "Of Man and Nature" that toot much logging in his native Vermont guments are all the same" bathad damaged the landscape and The echo of the century-ol- d tle is particularly loud in the Pacific hurt fish and wildlife To feed a growing nation 190 Northwest home to the biggest timber producers in the national forest million acres of forest were clearedi system and the northern spotted for farms between 1850 and 1910 owl which has turned the timber equivalent to all the lands now in Industry upside down since it was the national forest system "The villain of the modern world declared a threatened species last the automobile took a huge amount year of pressure off our forests because "Eighty years ago we didn't understand what we were doing would we don't have to feed all those horses" said Doug MacCleery a Forest lead to the gray wolfs extinction from Oregon to the grizzly bear's Service assistant director of timber extinction from Oregon The differmanagement "Almost a third of agence now is we are able to study and ricultural land was devoted to feedunderstand the results of our maning horses and mules Once that agement a lot better than before" pressure was taken off we didn't need to clear it" said Andy Stahl forester for the SiThe Forest Reserve Act came at a erra Club Legal Defense Fund in Seattle a leader in court battles to pivotal time: two years after the Oklahoma land rush turned loose protect the owl The forest centennial being cele- the Sooners in lands once set aside brated across the country this sum- for Native Americans and two years before Frederick Jackson Turner mer dates from March 3 1891 when Congress passed the Forest told the Columbian Exposition in 6 It'--- t 1 - I : 1 Ippt 1 -- 71 1 I 1 4 - i- —' 0 : 14 - ' :' - - - rtf A - t i t - - 11 vs " $ 1 - - i- I' A - ir 14' ! z -' 's iv q- - t t i '' -I 6 ' NEWS SERVICE Company r 4r1N t" 'v- It r : -- -- ) n0 4 - y 1: " 5 4 tl:ri 4 "A 5A A' - 't4L144t in-la- i 1 i N 1 i I i I i i i 1 $ $ I i I I I i i I I I 1 i i I i 1 I i i i $ t 1 I 1 I i i 1 i I I 1 1 1 t I i I 1 I 3 i I t 'V $ i 1 1 : 1 Aires It was outrageous but it worked — for 17 lucrative months Then police in Madrid arrested Indalecio "Andy" Iglesias La Empresa's money launderer Now Iglesias has turned state's witness telling and retelling authorities the sordid saga of La Empresa's narcotics trafficking money laundering and influence peddling Not only has he laid out La Empresa's activities in Spain Argentina and Uruguay since the 1988 Miami indictment but he is also providing the first insider account about La Empresa's Miami activi- ties i US drug agents traveled to Madrid earlier this year to meet with Iglesias carrying a list of 13 US bankers lawyers and others suspected of drug crimes in Miami Menem himself has not been tied to crimes and has distanced himself from his relatives even as he has the importance of the allegations against them Nonethepooh-poohe- d Iglesias' charges have profoundly shaken Menem's adminisless tration One of those jailed in Buenos g and Aires on conspiracy charges is Mario Caserta 43 an influential official who was prominent in Menem's 1989 campaign Menem's brother-in-laIbrahim 40 is out on bail after an indictment for money laundering and Menem's sister-in-laAmin Yoma 38 has taken a leave from her post as Menem's appointmoney-launderin- w ments secretary In interviews with The Miami Herald from Madrid Iglesias traced the beginning of La Empresa to the friendship between Ramon Cuban-borPuentes a auto dealer and the Medellin drug cartel's Jorge Ochoa Iglesias calls Puentes "El Viejo" — the old man Puentes top lieutenant was Mario Anello Born in Cuba and now about 38 Mello got his start as a cigarette-boa- t pilot racing dope from Bimini to the Florida coast Iglesias now 38 was the accountant Born in Panama to a traveling Cuban pharmacist and brought up in Cienfuegos Iglesias went to Mi n t kZIO 1 4 ‘ — i— 'ti t " ir ° P --- t") ' t "P v t't16'') P I - - 2' ' - t'4 ' '' ' 'r It-- 4vt 1744 I : P':" te 1171 1OA-- alastaistmart business was next In the headlines In 1988 when the federal government Indicted 18 people Including Fred de la Meta then president of Republic National Bank of Miami on drug and charges acquitted in September 1990 but a federal Judge earlier ordered Republic to forfeit Its financial Interest In the house saying Republic should have known it was dealing with drug dealers SOURCE: )"" Canada Norman Maclean described ' 1 ' :-- - 4 e - l':1ii 1 I ' '' 7:: :: rD: i 1 t: : :Q :! 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